This week, the Congressional PFAS Task Force, including Representatives Kildee, Tonko, and Fitzpatrick, joined me in my district to address clean water and to address PFAS water contamination. I thank them for joining me. We visited Naval…

Climate change is already exacting a dramatic toll: extreme weather, unprecedented migration, and untold suffering. Meanwhile, the administration denies basic science, and President Trump wants to pull the United States out of the Paris…

Over the last 100 days, this Congress has tackled many of America's central challenges. That starts, of course, with cleaning up our election system itself, and our vote on H.R. 1 is a giant step in the right direction. We have also…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 16, after line 2, insert the following: SEC. 4. AGENCY AND DEPARTMENT COORDINATION. The heads of…

I thank the author of this important bill, Representative Bass, and I thank the tireless advocates who have worked to bring us to this important day. Madam Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and to please support this…

America is built on some core values that everyone should have an equal voice in our democracy, that everyone deserves equal opportunity, and that equal work should mean equal pay. Right now, however, equal work doesn't mean equal pay…

Domestic violence is an insidious problem that affects far too many people across our country. One in four women and one in seven men will be the victim of violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Sadly, the scourge of domestic…

Last weekend Members of Congress traveled to Alabama for a civil rights pilgrimage. In Selma we marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge alongside Congressman John Lewis. Mr. Speaker, 54 years ago yesterday, Congressman Lewis was on that…

I am delighted that we are finally at this day, because you know the tide, you know the toll that takes place every day. On average, every day in America, 342 people are shot: murders, assaults, suicides, or suicide attempts. That means…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 3, line 11, after ``harm,'' insert ``including harm to self, family, household members, or others,''…

For decades, lobbyists have stifled our national conversation about gun violence and Congress has refused to act. Since Parkland, Thousand Oaks, and so many others, new voices have broken through. Student activists have marched…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the FIND Trafficking Act, H.R. 502. Over the last several years, the work of law enforcement has gotten significantly harder. One difference, cryptocurrencies; virtual…